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Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:31:37 +0000http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=15628#comment-65911Hi John, Don, fellow boatrockers. Yeah, I was wondering who “her” was myself. Yes, men may be coming from Mars, but I don’t think ANYONE knows WHERE most women are coming from. :)

Okay, back on subject, as best I can be so. Media… runs on money… and so… media will produce controversy… because many Americans LOVE it. It powers the juicy gossip and impending doom theories that keep most from being bored to death. In a way, its “snort”… or cocaine if you will. An average gossiper can actually get another person’s attention IF he/she delivers the opening line to a potential conversation starter… in a juicy, smash-mouth, bowl-them-over, shocky way. Juicy shocky one-liners spur kneejerk reactions, and not only do such things cause gossipers to take notice, but article readers as well. Its also a type of people-filter. For example, open up a conversation with a total stranger… with something like “God has been proved to deplore USA money and ownership (economies)”. In your “average person”, this kind of line CAN stab/zap a person in three ways. 1. God, a thing held sacred by many. 2. USA, a thing held sacred by many Americans. 3. Capitalism, a thing held sacred by capitalism lovers. Three little juicy appalling morsels of irking, all in one opening line. Needless to say, this line will catch the (fight-back-?) attention of quite a few… because it has “bashed” or at least included… three held-sacred things.

Now let’s wander over into another area of potential flim-flam. ANY newspaper… might get “special treatment” from insider sources and press secretaries… IF they spin a story per the preferences of the news releaser. Its a type of favoritism. We see lots of this going-on in the “economic recovery” realm because… in order to “save” the pyramid scheme… errr… capitalism, the “consumers” need to think everything is fine, and thus, get out there and buy buy buy. Consumers won’t do that, if they are scared (consumer confidence). This is why “the big boys” are painting-up the “recovery” dogturd with all these Bari clothes, makeup, and perfuming. This is a type of “propping up the economy” being done by SOMEONE, and its likely we’ll never get to the bottom of it. These same “proppers” are doing the same to the stock market… behind the scenes.

In a way, its a continuation of the “do as you’re told, or else”… from child-school. The average 18 year old gets about 15 years of “do as you’re told, do what I say, believe as I do, act as I do, OR ELSE!”- indoctrination railroading/bandwagoning. And so, when they turn 18, they believe that they MUST join the free marketeers pyramid scheme (get a job), or ELSE. Pull your weight, earn your keep, stand on your own two feet, get some responsibility, buckle down, work hard, get good grades, follow the rules and social mores, get a job, do as the bosses tell you. Get enough of that programming, and pretty soon, American sheeple will follow you to school one day, school one day, school one day.

What I’m saying is that they/we/her do as they are told, and believe what they are told, and they tend not to be boatrockers, but instead, good little marchers for the “Yay USA” imperialism. You ask them about world problems, and you get “its not my job”… and they are driven instead to be “normal”. And normal… is sheeple… do as you’re told-folk… surface dweller shoppers and eaters (fat, lazy, unaware, uncaring, unthinking, selfish enjoyment junkies).

There becomes an extreme lack of critical thinking and scrutinizing of things told to them/us/her. A mental laziness. Its hard to gun down evidence to a story… and costly… and most of us would highly prefer that the story be proven correct and accurate by those whose “job” it is to do so… and we believe, believe, believe. Its sort of like religion… a phenomenon which seems to fill-in the places where knowledge has not yet been gathered. Its easier to chalk something up to “magic” than it is to go gun down the truth about something. Truth isn’t controversial enough to gain anyone’s attention, anyway.

Conclusions? Boy, I sure don’t have any. We love our stories… but… I suppose its become a necessity to avoid wholeheartedly believing ANYTHING seen or heard… until its been thoroughly scrutinized. Blowing smoke and embellishment has become a national pass-time, so reader and listener beware. I don’t see it improving until capitalism finally flops and we abolish economies, ownership, and competing. Until then, the motives for embellishing and lying are too great… and newspapers are sure to succumb to the dark side of the force. Take care, gang!

Wingnut
Anti-capitalism-ist in Michigan

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Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:10:36 +0000http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=15628#comment-65867How on earth is the Average Person supposed to have any chance at all of forming a reasonable understanding of how her world works? John can you imagine if we could form a reasonable understanding of how her world works? I guess you could be like me and just say a few times a day,”strange”
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